the civil rights movement as i was growing up and states' rights. the rhetoric was again about what are the powers that we have here in this city versus the communities and the states, and here we are, number ten, the tea party and the urge to shrink government. the resistance to the affordable care act. i always was surprised that summer that people were getting red in the face about a health care bill. it wasn't the health care bill. it was the perception that washington was somehow taking over something that should have been left to them. gun control is a classic example which we were debating last week, and the irony and the difficulty of gun control is it's -- the problem is largely local and particularly in urban areas, but the solution is national because the guns that are being misused in urban areas come from all over the country, and that's why, in my opinion, we need national legislation, at a minimum background checks and trafficking regulation. regulation itself is an expression of governmental power, and it's resisted in many parts of